induction of systemic resistance to cucumber against marginal leaf blight disease caused by pseudomonas marginalis using silicon application (as 1 &2 mm of sodium silicate) was studied under greenhouse conditions. results indicated that application of 2 mm of sodium silicate remarkably increased resistance in cucumber against the pathogen. according to the results, disease severity in plants tr...

Determination of silicate concentration in seawater without addition of liquid reagents was the key prerequisite for developing an autonomous in situ electrochemical silicate sensor (Lacombe et al., 2007) [11]. The present challenge is to address the issue of calibrationless determination. To achieve such an objective, we chose chronoamperometry performed successively on planar microelectrode (...

The development of phytoplankton communities was studied in floating enclosures. The enclosures were supplied with either surface water or water from 40 m depth. Nutrients with or without silicate were added in some of the experiments, while others recieved no artificial fertilization. It is shown that diatom dominance occurred irrespective of season if silicate concentration exceeded a thresho...

We report the spectroscopic detection of silicate emission at 10 and 18μm in five PG quasars, the first detection of these two features in galaxies outside the Local Group. This finding is consistent with the unification model for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), which predicts that an AGN torus seen pole-on should show a silicate emission feature in the mid-infrared. The strengths of the detecte...

We investigate the late Cretaceous blueschist-facies (480 °C-1.8 GPa) segment of Zagros suture zone, a well-preserved block-in-matrix paleo-subduction channel. aim to determine relative chronology, conditions deformation, and potential fluid sources processes associated with widespread occurrence lawsonite + clinopyroxene glaucophane veins aragonite-bearing hydraulic breccias. use multi-scale a...

[1] Numerous hot springs flow within the steeply incised gorges of the central Nepal Himalayan front. The spring fluids have total dissolved solids (TDS) up to 7000 mg/L and Na, and K typically comprise >50% of the cationic charge, indicating that high-temperature silicate alteration is the dominant source of hot spring alkalinity. HCO3 is normally the dominant anion. Sr isotope ratios from the...

It has been proposed that increased rates of chemical weathering and the related drawdown of atmospheric CO on the 2 Ž . continents may have at least partly contributed to the low CO concentrations during the last glacial maximum LGM . 2 Variations in continental erosion could thus be one of the driving forces for the glacialrinterglacial climate cycles during Quaternary times. To test such an ...